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Armory Show 2012: So what happened to the Eurotrash?

Armory 2012 has come and gone and unlike recent years this one was quite splendid and satisfying. Ironic considering that this time there were...

Dance, Click, Snap at the Aperture Gallery.

College conditionals all of us - bros, hipsters, alts, scenesters, nerds, et al. - that the weekend really begins on Thursday night. So what...

Sally Golan finds her Bunny hole…

My second trip down the Gallery Bar rabbit hole occurred yesterday evening.  Unlike our heroine Alice, however, I did not know what quarry I...

Synapse, by Yasuto Sasada. Eye-catching and whimsical.

Yasuto Sasada premiered his first American gallery at CATM Chelsea one recent Friday ago. Combining traditional Japanese cultural tropes with a sci-fi sensibility, he...

Davide Balula: American Wall Nut 

For Davide Balula, all that it takes to make a captivating art piece is… a utility closet? In a city where the intangible emptiness...

Clic Gallery, and how they all flocked.

Here’s the question on my mind. Does art sell better when it’s surrounded by lots of beautiful people, correct cheek bones, foreign accents and...

Yoshitomo Nara wants to Confuse you.

The innocuous little moppets so delicately existent on Yoshimoto Nara’s canvases reversed the role of ‘gazer’ and ‘gazee’ at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in...